Silf Sparkling
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Finding common ground and embracing diversity. Looking for the silver lining, the eye of the storm, and spreading Love.
We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
#uspolitics #fascism #trumpregime
#uspolitics #fascism #trumpregime
Video: Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
#uspolitics #fascism #trumpregime
#uspolitics #fascism #trumpregime
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Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still grappling with long covid. Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.
Long covid patients are desperate for treatments. These trials may help.
Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still grappling with long covid. Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.
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At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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April 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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...five years old today and replacing the billionaire news on your feed one post at a time!
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...five years old today and replacing the billionaire news on your feed one post at a time!
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April 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Want to empower the good guys tonight?
Then please chip into the citizen journalism of the Bylines Network...
...five years old today and replacing the billionaire news on your feed one post at a time!
Community funded... by you 👉 chuffed.org/project/byli...
Then please chip into the citizen journalism of the Bylines Network...
...five years old today and replacing the billionaire news on your feed one post at a time!
Community funded... by you 👉 chuffed.org/project/byli...
Over ten months since he left office, Rishi Sunak is still shaping our democracy www.electoral-reform.org.uk/rishi-sunaks...
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Rishi Sunak’s resignation peerages will do nothing to help collapsing trust in politics
Ten months after the last government ended, it is still able to stuff yet more peers into the grossly oversized House of Lords. On Friday, Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list was pu
www.electoral-reform.org.uk
April 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Over ten months since he left office, Rishi Sunak is still shaping our democracy www.electoral-reform.org.uk/rishi-sunaks...
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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced — a move that immigration law and free-speech experts condemn as an alarming federal overstep.
U.S. will monitor immigrants’ social media for ‘antisemitic activity’
Homeland Security said such activity would be grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, alarming free-speech and immigration experts.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced — a move that immigration law and free-speech experts condemn as an alarming federal overstep.
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The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
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Unapologetically. ✊🇪🇺
February 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Unapologetically. ✊🇪🇺
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Thames Water, which is over £16 BILLION in debt, has just been granted a £3 billion rescue loan. Last December it was still paying fat dividends to bosses and shareholders.
This corporate greed and entitlement needs to be stopped.
As I’ve said before: It’s fucking WATER.
This corporate greed and entitlement needs to be stopped.
As I’ve said before: It’s fucking WATER.
February 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Thames Water, which is over £16 BILLION in debt, has just been granted a £3 billion rescue loan. Last December it was still paying fat dividends to bosses and shareholders.
This corporate greed and entitlement needs to be stopped.
As I’ve said before: It’s fucking WATER.
This corporate greed and entitlement needs to be stopped.
As I’ve said before: It’s fucking WATER.